[Chewbacca]

Hmm I know witches, taosist, and buddists that have been disowned or become estranged with their parents becuase they didnt choose the christianity they were raised in. My point is I wont blame christianity on the whole for the failings of some. Why blame buddists on the whole becuase some of them in china, or singpore forbid their children christianity when some christians here in america forbid their kids buddism. Every religion has its egotists and egotistical beliefs.

I have a personal example. In Alabama, when I was a teenager, My own mother refused to become Mormon after my Dad did, so the church women told her she and her children, who also refused mormonism are demons and was told we needed to be saved in the name of jesus christ or persih for eternity in hell. The church males had daily prayer sessions with my dad, telling him that only families get into heaven and if his wife and four kids didnt get baptized we would all go to hell.

The moral: all religions have egotist waiting to prey on the weak and fearful on a mission to convert and force beleifs on other people. I call such a type of person a spiritual or religious egotist. Parents try to control children, social pressure from a church, peer group, or individual. On a broader scale, Dont even get me started on tele-evangelists. Leaching money off people cause god said to do it. Sheesh!

And another thing...I work in the heart of Boston, The amount of wackos passing out doomsday material and "be saved or burn" literature is down right funny. Today alone in Downtown Crossing: The jehovahs witnesses, hari krishnas, baptist preachers, a crazy guy wearing a body sign with a picture of an aborted fetus on it, another crazy guy reading out of the bible in the middle of the street at the top of his lungs! Another guy offering the gosepel, his feet littered with pamplets that peoele refuse when he lunged it at them, hehehe! All of them wasting thier time as far as I'm concerned. There nothing wrong with the religions on the whole, just some of the "practioners".

Its one thing to make beliefs available to share in a mutual cordial manner, but one must remember that beliefs are not opinions or facts. They are purely subjective to the believer. The idea that a persons beliefs are personal and sacred is lost to the people afflicted with religious ego, whatever religion, buddist, christian, whatever.